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The Poetry of Nonsense.
86p small neat hardback, gilt-pattered boards with blue cloth spine, very good condition, a little ...
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Gallows Songs.
175?p large format hardback, orange and black patterned cover, earth-brown jacket with some wear ...
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Popevke i Spelancije - Crveni Peristil.
270p small hardback, grass-green cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, light wear to ...
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Il Romanzo dei Comici di Campagna.
xiv 352p hardback, beige cloth with bright yellow jacket and blue band, very good condition, ...
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Provocative Verse and Libellous Limericks.
hardback, green velvety boards with black lettering, spine absent, author' signed compliments on ...
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Alle Galgenlieder. (Galgenlieder, Palmström / Palma Kunkel, Gingganz)
333p bright yellow cloth clean and tight, dustjacket intact and well preserved, tight copy, clean ...
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There Once Was a Word from the Lord. An Assortment of over 650 Verses, Bible Stories and Sayings with Illustrative ketches by Nats Jenkins, Paraphrased in the "Limerick Style."
104p large format paperback, purple card cover, author inscription to title, very good, uncommon ...
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Yet More Comic and Curious Verse.
350p original paperback, orange decorative cover, some soiling to edge, text clean, binding tight, ...
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The Limerick. 1700 Examples with Notes Variants and Index. The Famous Paris Edition. Complete and Unexpurgated.
517p hardback edition, binding strong, yellow cloth binding very firm, fresh green jacket, ...
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Dies und das für euch zum Spass.
88p plain grey-blue cloth, bookplate, well preserved, some poems re-numbered in ink, a collection ...
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Cohen's Cornucopia.
112p hardback, price sticker on back cover, publisher's ink stamp on front endpaper, otherwise like ...
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What's the Use?
64p slim hardback pink laminated boards, edges a little dusty, very good
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The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. The First Tour in Search of the Picturesque. The Second Tour in Search of Consolation; The Third Tour in Search of a Wife.
272p 277p 279p, three volumes in original green cloth, light soiling to cloth, colour plates by ...
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The Midnight Court. A Rythmical Bacchanalia from the Irish of Bryan Merryman.
61p hardback with bright pink priceclipped dustjacket with decorations by Hugh Stevenson, lovely ...
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Galgenlieder.
32p illustrated manuscript unsigned except for the clue "Hago Verlag" to title page, each poem with ...
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Okker Gokker Gummi Klokker og Andre Bornerim.
approx 46p large format, card cover, colour illustrated by Ungermann, one small crease to front, ...
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Progulka verkhom i drugie stikhi.
32p stapled booklet, blue card cover, colour illustrations throughout, very well preserved: ...
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The Faber Book of Comic Verse.
388p terracotta cloth fresh and pleasant to the touch, find paper, very good and clean copy, with ...
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A la Manière de nos divins Poètes.
189p paperback, very well preserved, clean copy, holding well
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A Wee Keek Intae The Past (History in Verse)
33p white paperback, photographic portrait of the author to front cover, excellent condition, as new
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Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse with 80 Original Designs.
323p printed original wrapper, name to front, period advert "Battle of the Safes at Paris - ...
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Straw in the Hair. An Anthology of Nonsensical and Surrealist Verse.
xvii 260p yellow cloth bright and firm, illustrations by Victor Reinganum, a nice and clean copy ...
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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Lewis Carroll Verses.
63p small hardback with dustjacket, spine a little faded otherwise very well preserved, pencil note ...
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Selected Poems.
xxii 121p bright and crisp paperback from Carcanet, with the classic illustrations by Tenniel to go ...
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Select Fragments of the Greek Comic Poets.
xxii 203p original burgundy cloth, nice clean copy, from a Cambridge college library, "annexe ...
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Alle Galgenlieder. (Galgenlieder, Palmström / Palma Kunkel, Gingganz)
333p tan cloth clean and tight excellent copy, printed in sans serif font
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Pipes and Tabors. A Book of Light Verse.
x 132p hardback with bright pink dustjacket (this dustjacket displays on the inside the details of ...
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Die ängstliche Nacht. Bildergeschichten, Prosa und Gedichte.
72p paperback, a little aged,
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Small Latin and Less Greek. A Small Book of Lighthearted English-Latin Verse with just a sprinkling of the Attic Salt of Greek.
64p little book with light blue boards, condition excellent, text in English and Latin
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Galgenlieder: Dem Kind im Manne.
ca 30p small paperback, pages unmarked with b&w plates, binding firm, very good
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Comic Poems.
384p small format, marbled boards with red cloth spine, title label bright, edges and corners ...
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The Complete Limerick Book: The Origin History, and Achievements of the Limerick with over 300 Examples Many of which are Entirely New.
124p yellow paperback, supposedly the third edition of 1932 but in forworrd says Fourth Edition, ...
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Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel.
119p red speckled hardback with white dustjacket, very good condition, jacket sowwhat worn, faint ...
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Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel.
119p red speckled hardback, excellent condition, cover a little chipped, internally small amount of ...
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In Praise of Humour. An Anthology of Enjoyment.
64p small cerise hardback with happy and sad face patterned paper boards, first edition, pages ...
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Je Vous Salue Mesdames!
216p white paperback with pictorial laminated cover, slight creasing to spine but pages clean with ...
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Art ain't all Paint.
84p large blue cloth, lettering to spine, illustrations, collection of limerick-like poems, index, ...
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Das Mondschaf. Eine Auswahl aus den Galgenliedern./ The Moon Sheep. Authorized English Version by A E Eitzen.
95p hardback, collection of poems in German and English, very good
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Alle Galgenlieder: Galgenlieder, Palmström, Palma Kunkel, Gingganz.
327p yellow square cloth, illustrations, nice fresh copy, 21-40 Tausend
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A Little More Nonsense.
90p marbled boards, paper title labels to spine & cover, limericks with old woodcut illustrations, ...
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Less Eminent Victorians.
approx 60p of limericks with illustrations, cloth, A4 format, first edition, very good
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Sometime the Cow Kick Your Head: The Biennial of Light Verse and Witty Poems. Light Year '88/9.
235p russet cloth, dustjacket, illustrated by Bonnie Jackson, poems by Alfred Dorn, Marian Gleason, ...
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Witz, Lyrik, Sprache: Beiträge zur Literatur- und Sprachtheorie mit einem Anhang über den Fortschritt der Wissenschaft.
253p cloth, dustjacket, index, notes, tables, very good
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Die fromme Helene und andere Bildergeschichten.
162p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes: Das gestörte Rendezvous; ...
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Abenteuer eines Junggesellen und andere Bildergeschichten.
163p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, includes stories: Aus den ...
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Balduin Bählamm und andere Bildergeschichten.
159p cloth, dustjacket, nice edition with illustration to front, stories include: Die kühne ...
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Immer um die Litfass-Säule rum: Gedichte aus sieben Jahrzehnten Kabarett.
399p hardback, many photographic plates (a few duplicated due to binding error), index, a few ink ...
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